NVIDIA Releases GeForce Graphics Drivers for Windows 7 Beta
 SANTA
CLARA, CA, Mar 3, 2009 - NVIDIA today announced the immediate availability
of new graphics drivers from www.nvidia.com
for NVIDIA GeForce GPU owners running the new Windows 7 Beta. Today’s
availability represents the start of regular NVIDIA driver updates for the
forthcoming operating system from Microsoft. Windows 7 will be the first
Windows operating system to fully integrate and take advantage of the GPU
for both graphics and parallel computing.
“Since its release last month, the Windows 7 Beta has been eagerly tested by
hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GeForce owners, who are excited about the many
graphical improvements Microsoft has added into the upcoming operating system,”
said Ujesh Desai, vice president of GeForce desktop business at NVIDIA.
GeForce version 181.71 graphics drivers, released today on NVIDIA.com,
support the new Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) v1.1 from Microsoft. Powered
by NVIDIA DirectX 10 GPUs, WDDM v1.1 drivers provide an optimal visual
experience in Windows 7. These drivers offer increased performance and
reliability in both 2D and 3D applications, including the 3D Windows Aero
desktop.
“We expect that all of our hard work teaming with Microsoft over the past two
years will pay off for GeForce GPU owners when Windows 7 officially launches,”
said Dwight Diercks, vice president of software engineering at NVIDIA. “Our
customers are demanding an experience that is faster and more visual, and with
the addition of many new GPU-accelerated features, including DirectX Compute, we
believe Windows 7 will be well positioned to meet those needs.”
To download the new Windows 7 Beta drivers for NVIDIA GPUs, please visit:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_7.html.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies
and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates
breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game
consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer
market with its GeForce products, the professional design and visualization
market with its Quadro products, and the high-performance computing market with
its Tesla™ products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has
offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
For more information, visit
www.nvidia.com.
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